Utah's congressional delegation is swimming in campaign cash, with Rep. Blake Moore leading the pack by raising over half a million dollars in just three months – with corporations and political action committees opening their checkbooks wide.
Moore's fundraising machine pulled in an impressive $531,084 during the first quarter of 2025, with corporate interests and political action committees pouring in $339,500 – nearly two-thirds of his total haul.
Those PAC donations shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Moore is the House GOP conference vice-chair, which is the #6 leadership slot for House Republicans. His leadership position is likely the reason Moore’s campaign donated $50,000 to other Republican candidates.
Moore has more than $1.8 million sitting in his war chest.
Not far behind in the money race is Sen. Mike Lee, who hauled in an impressive $506,873 in the first quarter. But unlike Moore's corporate-heavy donations, Lee's fundraising tells a different story – just $47,000 came from PACs and corporations, with individual donors making up the bulk of his nearly million-dollar bank account.
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Fresh off his successful Senate campaign where he raised a staggering $5.6 million, Sen.-elect John Curtis's quarterly haul of $93,270 might seem modest. But with his next election not until 2030, Curtis appears to be taking a well-earned breather from the fundraising circuit.
Despite slowing down his fundraising efforts, Curtis still managed to attract significant corporate interest, with 63% of his $93,270 coming from PACs and corporations. His campaign maintains a healthy $672,000 war chest.
Rep. Burgess Owens’s campaign is usually a fundraising machine, but he only recorded $127,599 in donations — his lowest non-election year quarterly total since he pulled in just $98,000 in the final quarter of 2023.
Even more striking: Owens, who has raised an impressive $10 million since his 2020 campaign debut, received just $15,500 from PACs – the lowest among Utah's congressional delegation.
Rep. Celeste Maloy's fundraising tells a story of deep PAC connections, with more than half of her $135,579 quarterly donations – $70,500 – flowing from political action committees. Since stepping into former Rep. Chris Stewart's seat in 2023, Maloy has proven particularly attractive to business and ideological PACs, amassing nearly $1 million from these groups. Stewart himself appears to be maintaining ties to his former staffer, directing $7,500 to Maloy's campaign through his various political committees.
Almost 3/4ths of the campaign cash raised by Utah’s newest member of Congress, Rep. Mike Kennedy, came from political committees. Kennedy reported raising $42,500 from PACs — including a $5,000 from Elon Musk’s Starlink — and just $25,000 from individuals.
Kennedy is still owed $176,000 from his 2024 campaign and $442,543 from his unsuccessful 2018 Senate bid. These loans could be repaid using future campaign donations – a strategy successfully employed by Rep. Moore, who recently cleared his $130,000 campaign debt using this method.
